I love campy bullshit. For my money, there’s no better campy bullshit than True Blood. Unlike my complicated relationship with Glee, I’m all about Alan Ball’s vampiric Southern soap opera and I expect anyone who has followed the show into its third season feels similarly. True Blood is nothing if not consistent in what it […]
Dave Bow
Posted inMedia
Facebook Complicates Horman Case
Judging by the sneering tone of this blog post, Gawker blogger Adrien Chen does not find the following evidence compelling in the case of missing Portland second-grader, Kyron Horman, but I’m not so sure. Site I’ve never heard of before, MomLogic, thinks Horman’s parents’ Facebook usage suspicious, saying: Kyron’s stepmom has gotten criticism for posting […]
Posted inBikes
Ashley “Smash” Mitchell: Bike Safety Teacher
Free bike safety classes for kids (hopefully) raise a generation of cyclists.
Posted inMovies & TV
PUFF Piece
The Portland Underground Film Fest: Taint All Bad
The hits and misses of the sixth Portland Underground Film Festival.
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Dueling Shitty Titanic Sequels in the Works
Asylum Pictures – the studio that brought you Mega Pirhana and Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus and then wouldn’t let you return them – released the poster for their latest classic today, Titanic 2. On the 100th anniversary of the original voyage, a modern luxury liner christened “Titanic 2,” follows the path of its namesake. […]
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Gleegasm: Season-End Discussion Group
Well fellow gleetards, the trip is over. I’d like to say that when this column started Glee was just another struggling show on FOX and we’ve seen it grow together into the cultural phenomenon it is, but I came in halfway through the first season. It really only took a few episodes for Glee to […]
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Gleegasm: The Last Temptation of Sue Sylvester
Ahoy Gleeks! First things first: I am passing on this press release from Andy Mangels about scheduled Glee Nights at Julia’s Cafe in NE without comment. The evening will include video clips and singalongs from the hit Fox GLEE show, RARE video footage, *FREE prizes*, and special performances that may include members of Portland’s Imperial […]
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R.I.P. Louise Bourgeois, Artist
I know everyone’s feeling a bit of celebrity death fatigue what with Dennis Hopper and Gary Coleman and Ted Koppel’s son and Frank Frazetta and Dio and Guillermo del Toro’s version of The Hobbit, but I don’t want Louise Bourgeois to be lost in the shuffle. One of the most important artists of the last […]
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Turkish E.T. > American E.T.
Have you heard of Yeลilçam, the Turkish Hollywood? For three decades from the ’50s to the ’70s Yeลilçam was thriving, producing relatively big-budget films made locally for a Turkish audience. Then, in the ’80s television became more prevalent, the rise of the VCR changed distributors’ priorities and things looked bad for Turkey’s homegrown cinema. By […]
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Jumping the Sheik
Sex and the City 2: The Gayest Fanfic Ever Filmed
Sex and the City 2: The gayest fanfic ever filmed.
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“Can You Talk More About Crystals?”
The Spencer Pratt Interview
Self-made celebrity Spencer Pratt on guns, God, cyber hackers, and making serious cheese.
Posted inTheater & Performance
Smoke Up, Johnny
Blue Monkey Reprises The Breakfast Club
The Breakfast Club is what you get for spilling paint in the garage.